QuoteReplyTopic: Imitation: The Sincerest Form of Flatulence?!? Posted: May 27 2010 at 11:56am

THE RAZZIE® AWARDS HAVE DEVELOPED MANY PET PEEVES OVER the YEARS, and AMONG the MOST PEEVISH of THEM IS a GRIPE AGAINST MOVIES THAT BLATANTLY PANDER to AUDIENCES by IMITATING PREVIOUS SUCCESSFUL MOVIES -- ESPECIALLY the ONES THAT DON'T EVEN BOTHER to DISGUISE WHAT THEY'RE "PAYING HOMAGE TO" (i.e. RIPPING OFF)...

UPDATE: SPEAKING of REVIEWS, HERE's a LINK to an L.A. TIMES ARTICLE ABOUT the INCREDIBLY LAME "MOTIVE" LIONSGATE GAVE for REFUSING to SCREEN THIS FILM for ANYONE PRIOR to ITS OPENING DAY...WAIT'LL YOU READ WHAT THEY CLAIM!!

Ashton Kutcher...I curse the name! His movies frequently make my bad lists, usually within #20-#29 on my Bottom 40 lists over the past 3 years. Katherine Heigl did okay in Knocked Up (Tied with Superbad for #20 on my Best of '007), then she made The Ugly Truth, which I also put at #20, albeit on the Worst of '009. Habitual RAZZIE contenders like Ashton Kutcher make predicting the worst movie of the week too easy.

I used to like Ashton Kutcher for his charisma (and no,I don't have a crush on him), and that he could easily be funny. He also showed good acting skills in THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT.

I also used to like Katherine Heigl,especially in 2007, her year. She won an Emmy for GREY'S ANATOMY (none of her co-stars have), and starred in KNOCKED UP, one of the most successful comedies of that year. She showed good acting skills in both.

Now,they both have become runners-up for King & Queen of Rom/Coms..Is that bad? Maybe not, but their movies are bad...

This movie looks fun but I think Knight and Day will be better. And these two movies can't be worse than The Bounty Hunter. And yes, I named these three movies because they are all similar to one another.

It's not the worst pairing. I mean,obviously the studio said "These two are the stereotypical rom-com leads. Why haven't they co-starred in a movie yet?". Before that,they said the same concerning Heigl and Matthew McConaughey, but after an episode of ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE(R.I.P.)joked about that,they decided they didn't want to be predictable. Too bad this movie clearly will be.

Uh, no, it was more like "Hey Ashton Kutcher is popular and bankable! And hey Katherine Heigel is also popular and bankable! We should put them in a rom/com together, even if they don't click with each other at all!" Because THAT is how studios think!

The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.

The way this is being interpreted, I wonder if this is comparable to the "mockbusters" created by The Asylum studio (Transmorphers, The Day the Earth Stopped, Snakes on a Train, etc). The difference is that the Asylum knockoffs are direct-to-DVD, while Killers (Mr. & Mrs. Jones?) is in theaters.

BTW, isn't the Brangelina Mr. and Mrs. Smith a remake of a 1941 Hitchcock film? I am not 100% sure on this.

Speaking of remakes, I heard stuff about a remake (or a quasi-remake-ish prequel) of Mr. & Mrs. Smith with different actors and a different storyline. And it might really be called "Mr. & Mrs. Jones" when/if it comes! Consider Killers a preview of things to come.

Oh, sorry, but you are incorrect, sir! Hitchcock's MR. & MRS. SMITH movie was actually a comedy, which he agreed to direct as part of a dare to make a movie outside of his usual thriller genre! Only the name of the older movie was the same!

RESPONSE from Head RAZZberry: For the curious, here is an IMDb LINK to the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock movie entitled MR. AND MRS. SMITH. As stated above, the Hitch version was a marital discord comedy in the screwball mode, and one of the last movies to star Carole Lombard before her tragic death in a plane crash while on a war bond tour in January of 1942...

The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.

I smelled Razzie right from the moment I saw the trailer for this "movie."

Heigl and Kutcher were wrong for these roles. I immediately caught onto how much chemistry the two do NOT have with each other within seconds of that mess of a trailer. Granted, even if they DID have chemistry, Killers would still be terrible.

Is it just me, or is the generic blonde in the picture meant to look like a clone of Scarlett Johansson? Did the studios want her, but quickly learn that she has standards -- and didn't want any part of this s***?

The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.

Well, it looks like Marmaduke is at least open to crix the day before release (and living down to expectations). However, Killers is airtight; not a single review as of this post, so critics will have to wait for everyone else (though I don't think they will have to worry about sold out shows).

Is there a term for a "day before release" screening for critics? Various films follow that method for some reason (to try and convince people it doesn't suck that bad?) and you see reviews appear on Wednesdays and Thursday.

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